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Animal welfare rules must be better enforced, existing loopholes closed and offenders punished, not least because they also protect human health, by preventing the spread of animal-related diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

The Commission set the limits for the amount of ractopamine allowed in the tissues of pigs and cattle at 10 micrograms per kilogram of pig or cattle muscle, 40 micrograms per kilogram in liver and 90 micrograms per kilogram of the animals' kidneys.

Following vote at the Codex Alimentarius, the European Union reaffirms its position that an international standard for ractopamine is not justified.

Since the swine are from brucellosis and PRV free herds, they will not need to be tested for those diseases prior to change of ownership at the Texas market.

The general grain exports from Ukraine in the new MY (July 2012 - June 2013) may total nearly 26 mln tonnes.

As a result of rising feed prices, pig production costs are at a record high — 173p a kilo.

The signing of Strategic Plan for Strengthening Agricultural Cooperation will usher the existing agricultural cooperation into a new stage featuring all-round and in-depth cooperation as well as broader prospects.

During the first half of this year a total of 635 outbreaks of FMD have been detected in Turkey.

At the PIADC scientists have produced a molecular vaccine against one strain of FMD, that 1) does not use a live FMD virus for vaccine manufacture, and; 2) can be used to differentiate an infected from inoculated animal using common diagnostic tests.

The European Commission has approved 20 programmes to promote agricultural products in the European Union and in third countries.

U.S. farmers planted 96.4 million acres of corn, up 5 percent from last year, making it the highest corn acreage in the last 75 years.

The outbreaks are located in Maksatikhinsky raion (Tverskaya oblast) and Leninsky raion (Volgogradaskaya oblast).

South Australia will be among the first states to implement new national regulations for transporting livestock.

Exports of some specific products have grown faster than the average, for example, exports of pork are up by almost 120%, which translates into new trade of almost € 200 million.

The proposed transaction would not raise any horizontal competition concerns as the parties mostly operate in different Member States. In those markets where the parties' activities do overlap, namely certain markets for the supply of category 3 animal fats and proteins and the supply of category 2 animal meals, they will still face sufficiently strong competition after the merger to exclude competitive concerns.

Later this summer, the Department will launch a new approach to its testing to protect the public from exposure to harmful levels of chemical residues in meat, poultry, and egg products.